eResources by Subject: Geography And Geology

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• Web of Science

  The Web of Science database provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1945 - present
• GeoRef

  GeoRef indexes journal articles, books, maps, conference papers reports, and theses covering subjects such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: Geology of North America: 1785 - present; Geology of the world: 1933 - present
• Zoological Record

  Premier resource comprehensively indexing literature in zoology including biochemistry, behavior, ecology, evolution, genetics, etc.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1978 - present; Updated weekly; print and microform indexes available: 1864-1994
• Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts - (ASFA)

  Premier database for literature on the science, technology & management of marine, freshwater, & brackish water environments & organisms.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1971 - present; updated monthly

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• Agricola

  Citations to articles in the major agricultural journals worldwide.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1970 - present
• EIS (Environmental Impact Statements): Full-Text & Digests

  Digests of Environmental Impact Statements. Includes detailed abstracts of all environmental impact statements issued by the US government.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: Print version: 1979-1984 / Online version: 1985 - present; updated bi-monthly
• Oceanic Abstracts

  Focuses exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment, and has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics relating to oceans.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1981 - present
• SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online)

  SciELO is a multinational effort to provide open access to scientific research journals produced in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1990's - present
• SpringerLink

  SpringerLink offers online access to several fully peer reviewed journals in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• Wiley Online Library

  This database covers academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, psychology, law and criminology, life sciences, and business.

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• WorldCat

  Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1200 - present; Updated daily

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• Cambridge Journals Online

  Cambridge Journals Online is the online Cambridge University Press’s collection of several journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. 

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• Conference Papers Index

  Citations to papers and poster sessions at major scientific meetings.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1982 - present; updated bi-monthly
• Directory of Open Access journals - (DOAJ)

  This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 5496 journals in the directory. Currently 2315 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 453442 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• Historical Statistics of the United States

  This five-volume reference work reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: Pre-Colonial America - present
• Journal Citation Reports

  Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• JSTOR

  Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• PBS Video Collection

  You can now view nearly 250 quality PBS programs covering a wide variety of topics. These videos are viewable from any computer running Flash Player version 9 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps). Unfortunately, it will not be possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet line.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• PLoS

  Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit publisher that publishes the following titles: PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Pathogens, and PLoS Clinical Trials. PLoS uses an Open Access model to publish, meaning that all journal issues are available free of charge online from the moment of publication. PLoS Biology has an Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) impact factor of 14.7.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 2003 - present
• ScienceDirect

  Offers access to some of the Elsevier Journal collection covering the sciences, business, child development, computer science, economics, history, hospitality, industrial technology, library and information science and tourism. More than 2,500 journals and more than nine million full-text articles are available in ScienceDirect.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1995 - present
• World Development Indicators Online

  World Development Indicators Online, published by the World Bank, is a comprehensive database of development information covering more than 575 indicators, 225 countries, and 18 regional and income groups. The extensive collection includes data on population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources and environmental indicators from 1960 onwards.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• WorldCat Dissertations and Theses

  This database contains records for over 5 million items cataloged as dissertations, theses, or published materials based on theses or dissertations, in WorldCat, including titles provided by NetLibrary. The database allows users to quickly and efficiently retrieve records for theses and dissertations.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication